Monthly Archives: December 2006

Earth to Earthlink, hello...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/8/2006
Back in the bad old days of dial-up, I used Earthlink for several years. Assuming this column is accurate, I'm so very happy that I moved off Earthlink: A good friend of mine noticed last June a sudden and precipitous decline in his volume of incoming e-mail with the numbers dropping by 80-90 percent. Was he [...]
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That's lovely...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/6/2006
I haven't used Automatix, but I know that a lot of people that reported problems upgrading from Dapper to Edgy were (suprise!) using the third-party tool Automatix to add multimedia support and so forth. I caught this post today that notes that users asking for help from the Automatix folks get turned away if they [...]
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The problem with tooltips...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/5/2006
I have a love/hate relationship with tooltips -- you know, the little informative boxes that pop up next to checkboxes or other "action" spots in dialogs and Web pages. On the one hand, that little bit of extra contextual information can be very useful, and it's nice to get a further description or direction for an [...]
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It lives!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/2/2006
A few weeks ago I mentioned that my main system was having problems and that it was time to upgrade. After a lot of looking and a few delays, I finally got all the components I ordered today and put the new machine together. Though I started off planning to get a Core 2 Duo system, [...]
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